The former chief operating officer has been found guilty in an internal disciplinary hearing, a reliable source close to the hearings told News24.
During an unusually long media briefing, Motsoeneng called the SABC board members liars and expressed his disapproval of them.
Members of Parliament took a dim view of SABC chief financial officer James Aguma’s absence from Wednesday’s Scopa meeting.
The broadcaster’s deepening economic crisis poses a direct risk to local productions.
Hlaudi Motsoeneng faces an SABC disciplinary hearing, but is not afraid because he has this ‘thing’, which appears to be the size of two grapefruits.
It is like a tall drink of cool water on a sweltering day seeing our MPs do what they are mandated (and paid) to do.
EFF and Congress of the People MPs were not present at the meeting on Wednesday.
The SABC maintains that it had not yet implemented the policy to ban the airing of protest footage.
It’s not a scientific poll, but here’s the public’s choice of candidates to run the public broadcaster
The former SABC board chairperson’s bid to halt the inquiry into the board’s fitness to hold office was dismissed with costs last moth.
The parliamentary inquiry into the SABC is about the broadcaster, not one man, according to members of the investigating committee
The SABC has engaged in illegal conduct and entered into unscrupulous deals, according to a leaked preliminary report.
The public broadcaster’s board collapsed following en masse resignations.
The broadcaster’s spokesperson, Kaizer Kganyago, says they do not want to undermine the work of the ad hoc committee probing the organisation’s board.
The SABC has failed democracy. Everyone with authority has failed the journalists at the SABC.
The communications minister says she had no influence on many of the happenings that have plagued the public broadcaster.
The committee will be chaired by a person ordered by the court, based on names submitted by the Democratic Alliance, public protector and SABC.
In August 2015, the SSA was accused of conducting a ‘secret operation’ at the SABC’s Durban offices.
The court called the appointment of Hlaudi Motsoeneng as the SABC’s group executive of corporate affairs unlawful and irrational.
The inquiry into the affairs of the SABC resumed on Tuesday.
The SABC board chair was scheduled to appear in Parliament on Thursday to be interviewed by the ad hoc committee looking into the board’s fitness.
Ronnie Lubisi testified that Muthambi, at her first meeting with the board, urged them to appoint Motsoeneng permanently.
On May 26, the broadcaster banned the airing of footage of violent protests on its television stations.
The ANC chief whip blasted the broadcaster’s chairperson for the ‘utter disrespect he continues to demonstrate against Parliament’.
Hlaudi Motsoeneng’s position has no standing until the public protector’s report on him is suspended or overturned, the Western Cape High Court heard.
The parliamentary ad hoc committee tasked with investigating the SABC will begin its work on November 29.
"While the journalists are concerned about their safety, they remain resolute and determined to persist with the case," said their lawyer.
In a brief media statement, the presidency acknowledged the resignation of the third member of the current board.
The chairperson of Parliament’s portfolio committee on communications, Humphrey Maxegwana, says the committee sought legal advice on Tuesday.
The journalists want the National Assembly to institute an inquiry into the various issues plaguing the SABC, including their dismissals.
The party’s James Selfe described Motsoeneng as a ‘threat to South African democracy’ and ‘a modern-day Joseph Goebbels’.
The former COO was acquitted of charges after disciplinary proceedings took place between October and December 2015.